Beneath her makeup lay a pallor that had been set in place by long, hard winters.

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She's swathed in oversized, shapeless garments that worsen her ghastly, hollow-eyed pallor, and topped off by dirty-looking, thinning hair.

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Compared to them, Shipman seemed pathetic, a small, colourless man, with grey close-cropped hair and beard, and an unhealthy prison pallor.

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That is where the team was shocked to find a compound called cadmium oxalate as the cause of the grey-orange pallor.

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It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it replaces the corpse-like pallor of the computer programmer with a ruddy glow.

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With her pallor and uncompromising stare, Manet's Olympia had shocked 19th-century viewers.

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The thin moonlight diluted her coffee skin to a milky pallor.

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Later, after Veda grows up and becomes a radio star (played by Evan Rachel Wood), Haynes gives her a porcelain pallor and a mannered style of speech.

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His bearish outlook puts pallor globally on retail sales.

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With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.

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